Telling Children's Stories: Narrative Theory and Children's Literature

by Mike Cadden

Book Overview

The most accessible approach yet to children's literature and narrative theory, Telling Children's Stories is a comprehensive collection of never-before-published essays by an international slate of scholars that offers a broad yet in-depth assessment of narrative strategies unique to children's literature. The volume is divided into four interrelated sections: "Genre Templates and Transformations," "Approaches to the Picture Book," "Narrators...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803215681
• ISBN13: 9780803215689
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"